This reputation preceded the kidnapping incident. Notably, while it’s true that he installed a British payphone at his country estate while it was being renovated, forcing his guests to pay for their own calls, he also removed it 18 months later once the work was completed. (As he says in the film, he did have many other grandchildren who would have been susceptible to similar fates.) As the movie makes clear, he also had a reputation for keeping his fortune close, constantly looking for tax deductions and loopholes - but there was often a deeper story behind the anecdotes of his stinginess. Billionaire Ransom never truly takes on a life of its own, and instead feels like an awkward mishmash of its influences.TIME quoted the boy’s grandfather as saying that he opposed paying the kidnappers in principle, because it only encourages kidnapping as a criminal practice. The rich teens, even as they learn to take care of themselves through a mixture of killing deer and not eating the poison foliage that grows in the woods, are never really likable. The lead female antagonist comes off more like a '90s goth in a Marilyn Manson video instead of a highly trained killer. The mercenaries seem to have some deeper reason for taking billionaire children hostage besides simple greed, but these Marxist tendencies are merely hinted at. But it's hard to root for or identify with any of the characters. On the whole, Billionaire Ransom is mindless entertainment, watching the one percent get in touch with their animal natures. Characters who are drenched from rain and bodies of water are miraculously dry in the subsequent scene. But not even rain nor mud nor bloody injuries can mess up their supermodel hair and their nice clothing. The spoiled teens of wealthy parents are sent to a tough-love survivalist camp on a remote island in the UK, but then must fend for themselves and fight back when mercenaries try to take them hostage. Is it Less Than Zero meets Red Dawn? Deliverance 90210? Something like that, but the premise and its execution are ultimately too preposterous to even come close to any of those movies or TV shows. This movie comes off as a combination of various survival-themed action movies paired with stories of wealthy teens. Now, Kyle and his new friends must try to use the survival skills they have learned to fight back against the mercenaries and to also prove that they're no longer the spoiled brats they once were. He frees the other teens from being tied up, and they take to the woods. They demand one billion dollars from their parents, but Kyle manages to escape. But just when Kyle is starting to warm up to his new life, and has patched things up with Amy, three mercenaries invade the camp, kill the counselors and security guards, and take the wealthy teens hostage. Kyle is resistant at first, and is horrified to discover that Amy is also there quite naturally, she despises him. While his father does use his connections to get Kyle out of jail, he decides that the only way Kyle can learn responsibility is by being sent to a tough-love camp on a remote island in the UK for rich kids who messed up one too many times. They leave the party together, and Kyle, still drunk, wrecks his car by losing control and flipping it over he flees the scene and leaves Amy for dead. He attends a party and meets Amy ( Phoebe Tonkin), and they immediately hit it off. In BILLIONAIRE RANSOM, Kyle ( Jeremy Sumpter) is the spoiled and entitled son of a wealthy father. The movie has frequent profanity, including "f-k" used numerous times, plus "s-t," "ass," "p-y," and "pr-k." Cigarette smoking and marijuana smoking are seen. She lives, and he does some jail time, but he's let out early thanks to his wealthy father's connections. The lead character leaves a party extremely drunk he drives with a girl he has just met in the passenger seat and then flips the car and flees the scene, leaving the girl for dead, unconscious, with her body sticking through the shattered passenger side window. Characters are killed by sniper fire, machine guns, throat slitting, rocks to the head, and bow and arrow. The three terrorists who invade the island where the teens are living shoot the camp counselors and guards at point-blank range with assault rifles. Parents need to know that Billionaire Ransom (aka Take Down) is a 2016 action movie in which the spoiled teens of wealthy parents are sent to a survivalist camp and get more than they bargained for. Marijuana smoking.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Lead character drives drunk, flips his car, leaves the girl he had just met at the party for dead he gets out of jail early through his wealthy father's connections.
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